“Good place if you need to stay in El Paso. Clean, well-maintained, FHU and close to I-10.”

Reviewed Mar 17, 2017

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We stayed 2 nights at Mission RV Park while we restocked (hello, Costco!) and took care of some business in El Paso. Mission RV Park offered us what we needed - a clean, safe, well maintained spot while we were in town. The park is large with several areas dedicated to long-term residents. Transients are mostly kept separate and, of course, we get the less desirable spots. Fewer trees and no privacy at all between sites, which are pretty tight. The good news, many of the transient spaces are long, level pull-throughs, all with FHU which makes access a breeze. They also separate pet/non-pet owners which is the first time we’d seen that.

The park has security and the office is open until 10PM. The staff were friendly and helpful. I loved the large laundry (12 washers/12 dryers). In addition to the showers/restrooms, there is a covered swimming pool, sports courts, pet area, and clubhouse. There is also an RV Parts and Repair Center on site, but we did not check that out.

The downside is that you are parked literally in the shadow of I-10, so road noise was constant but not overwhelming. Most of the interior roads are paved, but the spaces are all dirt/gravel and it can get dusty. Overall we wouldn’t hesitate to stay here again if we needed to stop overnight in El Paso.

The $42 is the daily rate, they offer Good Sam and several other discounts as well as weekly/monthly rates. It's expensive for what you get, but it worked for a short stop in the city.

We had 4 bars of Verizon 4G unboosted, the park also has Wifi which worked well for us since we were parked very close to the antennae. We asked about Wifi before booking and the office staff were honest about its limitations depending on your location and how full the park is.

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“Somebody once got really mad at me for disliking El Paso so much...I think it just made me like it even less.”

Reviewed Aug 03, 2015

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Western Texas is a beautiful place. Even for being a big, wide, guard rail lined interstate, I-10 offers some spectacular views of waving blonde fields and skirted peaks boasting names like Eagle Mountain or Devil’s Ridge. The sun sets vivid pink and Mexico is just a glance out the window away.

And then there’s El Paso. It creeps up through the desert wilderness like an exploded sewer line in a ER. As one fellow traveler put it, “It looks like a construction site that they just decided to leave unfinished.” Abandoned buildings and active businesses can only be distinguished by the paths formed through the debris sitting outside and there is little but highway crossing highway-esque streets in any and every given direction.

It doesn’t take long to get to Mission RV Park once you’ve hit this wasteland, but if you can spare it, I’d recommend trying somewhere else. This park is what I like to call an RV Parking Lot, the type of place that provides less than 6 feet between your front door and the back of the next guy’s rig, which dwindles to 3 or 4 feet if your neighbor happens to have a slideout. They do provide picnic tables, but only to a select few inhabitants.

There is a basketball court, tennis court, a small but adequate playground, a game room — which I didn’t visit — and a swimming pool. The latter is the only element worth a real note, as it is actually very large and has a jacuzzi that some participating guests did find to be most relaxing, with big powerful jets that get the job done if said job’s description reads “give out the massage.” The pool is mostly 3 or 4 feet deep, with a 5 foot area in the middle. All in all, it’s a nice place to go for a swim if you’re so inclined.

However, the excessive signage was annoying. There were literally dozens of signs posting a long list of rules for the pool. Redundant rules, the type that only stodgy old people who’ve lost their will to live come up with. No eating, drinking or glass bottles. Next to that a sign depicting No alcohol. If the “no drinking” didn’t cover it, and “glass bottles” wasn’t enough to reinforce it, we’ll just tell you one more time. But much more than these simple slights to my easily-annoyed ego was the face that the pool was open from 8am – 10pm, however children (anyone under 16) were only allowed in the pool from 10am – 1pm and then again from 3pm – 5pm. Now, anyone who’s ever been a child knows that children are precisely the types of people who can squeeze 190% more fun out of a swimming experience than adults, but for some reason they’ve been limited to only 35% of the available time.

Tristan found a “Stay 4 nights, get the 5th free” card attached to our welcome packet here at the Mission RV Park and asked me if I'd like to keep it, which was met with a resounding “no, thanks.” Paying $30+ for a parking lot with hookups in the middle of a garbage dump I guess just doesn’t seem to be our idea of the RV lifestyle (even back when we largely stayed at private parks).

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